On-the-Fly Camera and Lidar Calibration

Author:

Nagy BalázsORCID,Benedek CsabaORCID

Abstract

Sensor fusion is one of the main challenges in self driving and robotics applications. In this paper we propose an automatic, online and target-less camera-Lidar extrinsic calibration approach. We adopt a structure from motion (SfM) method to generate 3D point clouds from the camera data which can be matched to the Lidar point clouds; thus, we address the extrinsic calibration problem as a registration task in the 3D domain. The core step of the approach is a two-stage transformation estimation: First, we introduce an object level coarse alignment algorithm operating in the Hough space to transform the SfM-based and the Lidar point clouds into a common coordinate system. Thereafter, we apply a control point based nonrigid transformation refinement step to register the point clouds more precisely. Finally, we calculate the correspondences between the 3D Lidar points and the pixels in the 2D camera domain. We evaluated the method in various real-life traffic scenarios in Budapest, Hungary. The results show that our proposed extrinsic calibration approach is able to provide accurate and robust parameter settings on-the-fly.

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

General Earth and Planetary Sciences

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